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Why does Satan say "love is overrated"?


And that it is no different from eating a quantity of large chocolates?

I know he's evil and whatnot, but isn't love a great thing really?

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depend of the person some people are not interest in love or any kind of emotionally atachment in fact a lot of young people prefer casual relations and avoid marriage prefering theyr freedom and enjoy more sex tan love and are not necessary evil just because of that, every each is own, not everybody can have the same expectations

It just a movie and as such in the end always present the traditional valious like the source of salvation from the main character and even the world in Matrix the love of Trinity save Neo and viceversa in Matrix Reload, in the Fifth element the fifith element is Love and with a kiss all the evil is destroy and the entire earth is save

Love and monogamy relations that prevail in time are dificult things to find and maintain, people with bad experiences from theyr own of from others and prefer be more free and less atached to someone else are not nessary bad, that is a very simplistic mindset

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I think that this version of Satan is a serious prick who hates humanity, so it makes sense that he/it would jubilantly denigrate any positive aspects of the human experience.
He is just evil, and whatnot, and he hates love because love is indeed a great thing.

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Bullshit, he's a "FAN OF MAN! A humanist, maybe the last humanist."

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Thank you. Satan is a humanist and a libertarian.

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He's lying. He does it a lot. He's known for it.

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To love something means you can't be completely self indulgent. You have to give to love. Not really a Satan thing.

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This is an excellent point. He would also want anybody who was going to learn the value of selflessness to be diverted from that path.

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He said "Biochemically no different." Which is kind of true. You get the same hit of chemicals from eating chocolate.

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Love is beyond biochemistry. It’s beyond everything. It’s the only thing that can defeat evil and the devil so of course he’s going to argue it’s over-rated. Love is his one true enemy.

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Didn't you watch star wars, didn't you hear Yoda says that love leads to the fear of losing it, leads to hatred, leads to dark side?

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He did not say it was not great, just overrated.

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Usually, "overrated" is synonymous with "not great", and I could also tell by his voice and facial expression that he found it average at best.

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I mean, you need to consider he's trying to "used car salesman" Kevin into doing his bidding by shooting down all his points.

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I take it as meaning of "great, but not that great".

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He is incapable of love but knows it is so powerful it saves souls. So he has to belittle it and push carnality instead.

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